We have an international reputation for research achieving high scores in the latest UK Government Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which makes this an ideal place to pursue a research degree.
To search for a research opportunity enter a keyword into the search box, this is linked to the University's database of research areas or visit our research page.
As a research student within the Faculty of Engineering:
- You will join over 700 engineering and computing postgraduate students who come from all around the world.
- You will be supervised by academics at the cutting edge of their discipline who will challenge, encourage and support you.
- You will be able to make use of our excellent facilities across all activities.
- You will benefit from our strong industrial connections with major collaboration both in the UK and overseas. In addition to our participation in the Worldwide Universities Network, the University is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research intensive UK universities.
We also have a number of Centres for Doctoral Training, which draw on world class and internationally recognised research from a range of disciplines and faculties across the University.
The University's postgraduate research brochure provides an overview of postgraduate research at Leeds.